VERY interesting that you bring that up.

I would argue that ALPA simply picked the "winners".

What if it HAD been retroactive? Would that have been any less fair than letting guys hang out in the wind based on a single date? Guys who are 60 the day before the cutoff are less safe than the guy born two days later 5 years down the road?

Or would it have been better to avoid the windfall situation altogether by simply saying that anyone hired AFTER this point would be allowed to go to 65.

I wonder how thrilled the current winners would have been with either of those scenarios. I'm guessing their support would not have been quite so rabid.

Nu